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I was recently told by a family friend that I lead an esoteric life (my Grandma also compared my life to day old fish)….On Monday I begin a new short term job at an International School teaching “English/Poetry/Drama to Grades 11 and 12. So for those purists out there it will be my “first” real teaching job…..Hah…. Actually I have been teaching at my own school for about 18 years. So if experience counts out in the real world I shouldn’t have too many problems…. I have already prepared my classes and since the students will be involved with a lot of self study, my job will be one of guidance in their learning process. The topics I will cover range from short stories to Sylvia Plath, from “Of Mice and Men” to short drama which will be video taped and posted on a special class Facebook group. In a way I am looking forward to this…..

I’ve been in Cambodia since the 3rd week of December. Tonight will be my first night in many months in my own place (although I share a house/villa with 3 others). I was really lucky to have been able to stay with my sisters family for these last few weeks. The last week was spent cleaning out the room that I will rent. I hired a cleaner that works with my sisters maid. I think I will hire her to clean my room a few times a week ,as the house maid only cleans the common areas of the villa. Hopefully next week I will have my room painted as it is a very drab/vile yellow. I bought a little floor lamp at the local market, and plan to buy a few new curtain rods and some new curtains out of linen or silk. I am looking to make the room feel and look clean and airy.

On Wednesday afternoon, some of the terrified teenagers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, used social media to bear witness to the recurring tragedy of our time: a mass shooting. These children, who've grown up with smartphones at the ready, did what comes naturally to them and shared their experiences on platforms like Twitt […]

Facebook is feeling lonely these days. The social media behemoth has seen a decline in traffic in recent weeks along with millions of users leaving its platform, and it appears to be taking rather drastic measures to win them back. Specifically, spamming the hell out of them in a most unfortunate place. SEE ALSO: The time has come to remove Facebook from y […]

Milo Anthony Ventimiglia is back on Instagram and you'd better believe he's playing by his own rules. Die-hard fans may recall the This Is Us star quit Instagram in January 2013 after feeling like people were no longer paying attention to his photos. (We get it, Mi.) He shared a memorable final post captioned "Finito," and proceeded to go […]

People are finding interesting ways to repurpose ordinary bars of soap lying around their homes. The result is intense visuals and sounds of cutting, carving, and crunching soap. According to experts, watching or trying this activity can have some surprisingly therapeutic effects. Read more...More about Trending, Instagram, Viral, Mashable Video, and Trends […]

This may be hard to imagine, but I, a now hilarious 24-year-old with impressive self-control and impeccable taste in movies, music, and celebrity crushes, have not always crafted the best tweets. Sure, my Twitter fingers are professionally trained at this point. But when I first made my debut in 2011, I was an angsty 18-year-old, obsessed with One Tree Hill, […]

All is not well for Snapchat. The app has ticked off its most loyal users with its latest redesign which merges your friends' snap messages with their Stories. It's the app's first major #facepalm. But good news! There's a way to switch back to the old Snapchat, and we're gonna show you how do it. But it does come with one big catch […]

Congratulations, internet! We've ruined another glorious thing. On Friday, beloved cozy and outdoors-y things retailer L.L. Bean announced that it would end its famed lifetime return policy. And social media is at least in part to blame. “What we have seen, and it has come to the point where we had to act upon it, is a small but growing group of custome […]

Hating on dumb Facebook comments may be on the verge of getting a whole lot easier. Ever the innovator, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have found a way to transfer all the bickering in your feed into something much more orderly. Specifically, downvotes. SEE ALSO: Why social media companies won’t kill off bots On Thursday, various people took to Tw […]

It's been said, many times, but it's worth repeating: Instagram's algorithmic timeline is a steaming pile of nonsense. SEE ALSO: Instagram is actively ruining my life with its inhumane algorithm The photo-focused social network replaced its chronological feed with an algorithmic one back in 2016, meaning the content you see is ranked according […]